Sentences with phrase «cognitive systems for»

Humans use two cognitive systems for processing information: one fast and intuitive, another slower and analytical.

This means that gestures affect how meaning is interpreted, and we believe this points to the existence of a common cognitive system for gestures, intonation and rhythm of spoken language.»

Not exact matches

Big Blue has found yet another business application for its precocious cognitive computing system.

IBM's artificial intelligence business has generated positive buzz thanks to its Watson cognitive system, which is known for beating two human «Jeopardy!» contestants.

Both offer large scale systematic accounts of the nature of reality in general, largely dismissing the suggestion that the only world we can know is one whose main structure is determined by the human cognitive system and which, therefore, only exists for us.

Reishi mushrooms date back to ancient times and have been used for many years to help boost our immune system, reduce inflammation, enhancing cognitive function and support liver health.

Learn why attachment play is vital for your child's self - esteem, EQ and IQ (cognitive, emotional and social intelligence) and to support pro-social brain chemical systems, for long term well - being.

A baby needs a loving caregiver who gives her what she needs, on her terms, in order to wire up the major biological systems that create a foundation for later psychological and cognitive well - being.

Imaginative / pretend play is known for its cognitive and motor skill benefits... and it happens to be at the core of the Tot on the Pot system.

While the choice ultimately lies with the mother, there is a strong body of evidence that indicates that breast feeding has numerous health advantages, including the strengthening baby's immune system, preventing allergies, reducing the risk for SIDS, and maybe even helping their cognitive development.

Developing a cognitive awareness of the original traumatizing experiences, and of the systems created in their wake, is a good start to the process of taking responsibility for our own healing.

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The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

Our study found no evidence of benefit for nervous system or cognitive function from 12 months of supplementation among older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to detect electrical activity in the brain, Emmanuelle Tognoli, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, associate research professor in FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and an expert in electrophysiology and neural, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, will examine how the tactile information from the robotic sensors is passed onto the brain to distinguish scenarios with successful or unsuccessful functional restoration of the sense of touch.

For example, many chemotherapy drugs suppress the immune system, which might explain why some people with cancer develop «chemobrain» — a term used to describe the cognitive problems and memory loss associated with chemotherapy.

Traditional antipsychotic drugs, which have been used for 40 years, are known to alleviate symptoms of the disorder in some patients by blocking receptors of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is central to the brain's reward system as well as cognitive processing like attention and problem - solving.

Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

«Our results suggest that ongoing cytokine activation in the nervous system can contribute to the persistent symptoms of fatigue, pain, and cognitive dysfunction that patients sometimes experience despite having been treated for Lyme disease.»

Olivier Morin, a cognitive anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, analyzed the features of 116 writing systems across 3000 years of history.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

Working memory is the cognitive system responsible for the temporary storage of information we need to support ongoing everyday activities, such as a locker combination or a friend's Twitter handle.

Now they have demonstrated in vivo for the first time that one dose of this gene injected into the central nervous system prevents the cognitive decline associated with aging in old animals which were treated at a younger age.

For example, in one experiment participants were asked a series of questions, known as the Cognitive Reflection Test, designed to assess the degree to which System 1 intuitive processes are engaged in decision - making.

The researchers from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, which studies cognitive brain mechanisms, and Center for Neuroscience, which studies molecular, cellular and system - level brain mechanisms, each brought specific expertise to the collaborative study.

That, coupled with food surpluses from farming, led to systems of trade and the need to track the flow of resources, which in turn could have selected for individuals with specific cognitive strengths.

Moreover, it seems that the immune system itself can affect the brain to such an extent that the person's cognitive ability measured by an IQ test will also be impaired many years after the infection has been cured,» explains MD and PhD Michael Eriksen Benrós, who is affiliated with the National Centre for Register - Based Research at Aarhus BSS and the Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen.

A paper published in the December 1999 IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering describes a NavChair Assistive Wheelchair Navigation System (pdf) developed at the time to reduce the «cognitive and physical requirements of operating a power wheelchair for people with wide ranging impairments that limit their access to powered mobility.»

In a collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Research, the Cognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory (CISL) has reached that milestone, and is poised to advance cognitive and immersive environments for collaborative problem - solving in situations like board rooms, classrooms, diagnosis rooms, and designCognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory (CISL) has reached that milestone, and is poised to advance cognitive and immersive environments for collaborative problem - solving in situations like board rooms, classrooms, diagnosis rooms, and designcognitive and immersive environments for collaborative problem - solving in situations like board rooms, classrooms, diagnosis rooms, and design studios.

Research has shown that the vocal and visual instructions coming from conventional navigation systems demand the same cognitive attention that's required for driving, increasing the likelihood of cognitive overload.

A second explanation for this behavior is that babies» expectations about animals and their insides are tied to the cognitive systems humans evolved to deal with predators and prey — in other words, to deal with animals as a food source.

Now they have demonstrated in vivo for the first time that one dose of this geneinjected into the central nervous system prevents the cognitive decline associated with ageing in old animals which were treated at a younger age.

Edward Boyden, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, biological engineering, and brain and cognitive sciences, was one of five scientists honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, given for «transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.»

The Foundation, which has a model system for traumatic brain injury (NNJTBIS), is also widely known for cognitive rehabilitation research in brain injury, multiple sclerosis and stroke.

Awarded for outstanding achievement in advancing knowledge and understanding of the brain and nervous system, including molecular, cellular, systems, neurogenetics, developmental, cognitive, computational, and related facets of the brain and nervous system.

Dr Tara Spires - Jones, Reader and Chancellor's Fellow, and Interim Director at Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh, said:

Dr Tara Spires - Jones, Reader and Chancellor's Fellow, Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh, said:

In the newest of the centers, the COBRE for Central Nervous System Function, Brown psychologist Dima Amso uses eye tracking and «smart playroom» technology to assess the visual and cognitive development of children as young as just a few months.

Co-authors are Matthew Hirschtritt, MD, MPH, and Kevin Delucchi, PhD, from UCSF; Marco Grados, MD, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore; Cornelia Illmann, PhD, David Pauls, PhD, Erica Greenberg, MD, and Lisa Osiecki from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Jeremiah Scharf, MD, PhD, from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Paul Sandor, MD, from the University of Toronto; Yves Dion, MD, from the University of Montreal; Robert King, MD, from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; Cathy Budman, MD, from the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, N.Y.; Danielle Cath, MD, PhD, from Utrecht University, Netherlands; Gholson Lyon, MD, PhD, from the Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.; William McMahon, MD, from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and Paul C. Lee, MD, MPH, from the Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu.

Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will be presenting a talk titled, «A System Identification Approach to Infer Neural Codes from Neural Dynamics» at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 3:30 pm.

Threat: Dean Mobbs, assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience, and Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics and T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair, will focus on the neural systems used in threat response.

Indeed, it remains a hotly debated topic as to whether human language evolved from other animal communication systems for the purpose of communication, or as an independent outcome of selection for enhanced general cognitive abilities (sensu Donaldson et al. 2007).

Objective: To lay the groundwork for a general theory («Super Semantics») that will offer a comparative analysis of meaning in language (spoken and signed languages), in gestures, in music, and in primate communication, and will probe the cognitive and evolutionary origins of these diverse semantic systems.

Alain Destexhe, Research Director of Unité de Neurosciences CNRS, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Bruno Weber, Professor of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland Carmen Gruber Traub, Fraunhofer, Germany Costas Kiparissides, Certh, Greece Cyril Poupon, Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy unit of NeuroSpin, University Paris Saclay, Gif - sur - Yvette, France David Boas, Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Hanchuan Peng, Associate Investigator at Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder, Head of Department of Integrative Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin, Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director of the Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, France

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Centre for Neural Computation The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits St Olavs University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre for Neuroscience, Faculty of Science Radboud University

Dr Tara Spires - Jones, Interim Director, Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh, said:

Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and W. M. Keck Career Development Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has been named a recipient of the 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award — Canada's most prestigious scientific prize — for his role in developing the CRISPR - Cas9 gene - editing system.

Finally, combining the results of PET imaging of declines in these different neuromodulator systems with behavioral studies in patients with Parkinson's disease and rodents with experimental damage to those systems helps us understand how they contribute to both cognitive deficits and the risk for falls.

Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions